Name: Beethoven's Ninth
Start: 2024-06-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Southam Hall

Organization

National Arts Centre

Conductor

Alexander Shelley

Instrumentalist

Jess Gillam

Soprano Saxophone Solo

Orchestra

National Arts Centre Orchestra (NAC)

Others

Ottawa Choral Society

Beethoven's Ninth

Ottawa

Canada

Southam Hall

Beethoven's Ninth: Glasslands Clyne (+1 More)

Public

Glasslands

9th Symphony

Approved

Ludwig van Beethoven rocked the world of classical music in many ways, and his Symphony No. 9, with its spine-tingling “Ode to Joy,” was a radical work that introduced singing into a symphony for the first time—and what singing it was!

Anna Clyne’s Glasslands, a co-commission of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, BBC Radio 3, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, “conjures an imaginary world of three realms governed by the banshee—a female spirit who, in Irish folklore, heralds the death of a family member, usually by wailing, shrieking, or keening in the silence of the night.” Featured soloist British saxophonist Jess Gillam is musical lightning in a bottle, animating the world with her outstanding talent and infectious personality, every ounce of which she shares for this performance.

ᓂᔭ niya (I Am), by Winnipeg-based composer Andrew Balfour, was commissioned by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra as a companion piece to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.  Of Cree descent, Balfour is an innovative, multi-faceted composer/conductor with a  large body of choral, instrumental, electro-acoustic and orchestral works.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble